Hi David, Some of the lessons that Apple have taught us is that great design and > great branding are valuable assets. They simply took linux, beautified it > and .. well.. look at that.. > > i thought it was FreeBSD, but close enough :) it's all *nix at the end of the day :) i think it's beauty is a default that has been the game changer... i remember spending hours, no days, no weeks, no actually years perfecting my setup of ctwm, tcsh then zsh, vim, etc etc... and of course, enlightenment (which was indeed, "beautiful")... but by default, Solaris, HPUX, Linux, OSF / Tru64 and others could definitely not be classified as "beautiful out of the box" :)
> However, I suspect that getting finance to build a pad computer company > in India wouldn't be as difficult as it would be here. > > Actually, i knew some of the big VC's there, and although every one claims they are very gung ho about India, VC's are still very cautious... one huge american VC (that say they believe in India) (can't name them... sorry), who is on their approx 11th round of funds - and this 11th round is a $600mil round, only kept $50mil for India... and even then, critical decisions were channeled via the US (who don't understand the ground realities of India)... I'm not in such a hurry to do that. But I have sold computers in Asia > and I know how willing in some Indian circles they are to fund efforts > like this. > > In Australia, we have things like Puppy Linux which could be used as a > base. > > I'm very sure that even a weak-knee'd Aussie Pad OS effort would get > a good return on investment. I'd love to see more competition... but i think you'd need quite a bit now to compete with android, primarily because it's not just an OS, it's an ecosystem (especially with the android marketplace, and apps is what it's all about)... you could customise that... simran. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
